*sigh* I know. I know :-) But it works so well in a production
environment and well it's about 10g's less then the next best thing.
-jeremy
>
> Ahh, but that would imply that it wasn't alpha software..... one must
> remember that however stable it is, those who know have yet to release
> raidtools 1.0 and nomatter how much good it is... one should remember
> that.
>
> It has proven itself to be really nice in my experience, but I might
> hesitate to use in a production environment....
>
> On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, XxEDGExX wrote:
>
> >
> > It came up. I had module deps problems, so I went init 1, then
> > on my way back to init 3 I got a kernel panic. Don't know if
> > it's related to raid though. I somehow doubt it.
> >
> > I would just feel a whole lot better if someone released a patch
> > for 2.2.2 that applied without any fixing.
> >
> > -jeremy
> >
> > >
> > > I'd say that if it didn't barf right away it's probably not too
> > > significant.... is there somone on the list that can give is a definitive
> > > answer... There's at least 2 versions stated to be correct (OK, I'm not
> > > exactly an authority but it looks right to me)... and one thats definitely
> > > not right but work anyway....
> > >
> > > On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, XxEDGExX wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Well, it's in the middle of a fsck on /dev/md2 right now. I sure
> > > > hope what I had in there won't mess anything up, or I'll probable
> > > > be looking for another job :-) I shouldn't be smiling.
> > > >
> > > > -jeremy
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Ahhh, err don't think so.....
> > > > >
> > > > > sector size has nothing to do with partition "type" I haven't studied the
> > > > > code and am not really a C programmer (I have done mostly Assembly
> > > > > language, but in the past and not X86) ... My interpretation was that it
> > > > > should just be :-
> > > > >
> > > > > > add_partition(hd, current_minor, this_sector+START_SECT(p)*sector_size,
> > > > > > NR_SECTS(p), ptype(p));
> > > > >
> > > > > That works for me, but there was another message on here saying "just set
> > > > > it to 0" that may work also... I'd have to examine the code.
> > > > >
> > > > > James
> > > > >
> > > > > On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, XxEDGExX wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > This is after I applied Alan's ac1. Here are my add_partition lines in
> > > > > > genhd.c:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > line 268
> > > > > > add_partition(hd, current_minor, this_sector+START_SECT(p)*sector_size,
> > > > > > NR_SECTS(p), ptype(p)*sector_size);
> > > > > >
> > > > > > line 566
> > > > > > add_partition(hd, minor, first_sector+START_SECT(p)*sector_size,
> > > > > > NR_SECTS(p), ptype(p)*sector_size);
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Is this correct? It did compile, but I'm remote and don't want to
> > > > > > reboot until tomorrow morning.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thanks
> > > > > > -jeremy
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > Whoops... yes, I thought about this on the way home. genhd.c must be
>fixed in
> > > > > > > two spots for add_partition calls. Just stick a ,0 at the end of each.
>I'm
> > > > > > > running it now and so far it seems just dandy.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, A James Lewis wrote:
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >It appears to me that you must add the "ptype(p)" to add_partition in
> > > > > > > >genhd.c otherwise the kernel will not compile!
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >But otherwise I agree....
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, John Gruenenfelder wrote:
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >> On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, XxEDGExX wrote:
> > > > > > > >>
> > > > > > > >> >
> > > > > > > >> >I hate to ask, but I'm desperate. Are we far off from a clean 2.2.2
> > > > > > > >> >patch?
> > > > > > > >> >
> > > > > > > >> >I have major NFS issues that I'm hoping 2.2.2 will fix, but I can't
>go any
> > > > > > > >> >further until the raid patches become available.
> > > > > > > >> >
> > > > > > > >> >Thanks
> > > > > > > >> >-jeremy
> > > > > > > >>
> > > > > > > >> I wouldn't worry about it. When you apply the patch there will be 4
>rejects.
> > > > > > > >> One in mmap.c and three in genhd.c. These can all safely be ignored.
> If you
> > > > > > > >> look at the .rej files, you'll notice that all these rejects would
>have done
> > > > > > > >> is rearrange some code and maybe add some blank lines.
> > > > > > > >>
> > > > > > > >>
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